To organize, carry, and protect the owner's tools used for trade, hobby or DIY.

Tool Box

To organize, carry, and protect the owner's tools used for trade, hobby or DIY.

This is a tool implement sued to pull out weeds, an agricultural implement.

Weed Puller

This is a tool implement sued to pull out weeds, an agricultural implement.

A diagram illustrating a section of a lean-to pit. This pit is useful for early forcing of melons or cucumbers. A, Ordinary Soil; b, Passage; c, Heated Chamber below Stage; d, Bed; e, Hot-Water Pipes.

Section of Lean-To Pit

A diagram illustrating a section of a lean-to pit. This pit is useful for early forcing of melons or…

Some tools that are commonly used in gardening.

Set of Garden Implements

Some tools that are commonly used in gardening.

Tools used by men of primitive days.

Primitive Tools

Tools used by men of primitive days.

"A set of stocks, dies, and taps for cutting threads on bolts and inside of nuts."—The Federal Digest, 1921

Screw Plate

"A set of stocks, dies, and taps for cutting threads on bolts and inside of nuts."—The Federal…

Some blades, such as the first two, are made with a rounded point to cut the bark without the knife entering the wood underneath. The middle two knives are made with the edge of the knife carrying to a point and are used for ordinary purposes. The last knife has a piece of ivory inserted for opening the bark.

Budding Knives

Some blades, such as the first two, are made with a rounded point to cut the bark without the knife…

The garden hammer are usually used in gardening for nailing wall trees. The hammer head is short and flat at the end used for driving nails.

Garden Hammer

The garden hammer are usually used in gardening for nailing wall trees. The hammer head is short and…

In the swan necked draw hoe the handle is inserted in a socket which is connected with the blade by a curved, solid neck. The blade should be made of steel plates, welded on iron necks.

Swan Necked Draw Hoe

In the swan necked draw hoe the handle is inserted in a socket which is connected with the blade by…

The spanish or vernon hoe is a form with only one point.

Spanish or Vernon Hoe

The spanish or vernon hoe is a form with only one point.

Dutch hoes are useful for destroying weeds or for loosening the surface.

Dutch Hoe

Dutch hoes are useful for destroying weeds or for loosening the surface.

This is a combination draw hoe. It is also called a mattock or fork. It also known as a pitchfork.

Draw Hoe and Fork Combined

This is a combination draw hoe. It is also called a mattock or fork. It also known as a pitchfork.

Illustrated are tools in the sculptures on a Theban tomb. The very early tool for opening or tilling the ground appears to have been a forked stick. The hoe and plow developed from this tool.

Sculptures on a Theban Tomb

Illustrated are tools in the sculptures on a Theban tomb. The very early tool for opening or tilling…

Chart of tool holders for various forms of high speed steel cutters, including outside turning and threading as well as inside turning and threading.

Lathe Tool Holders for High Speed Cutters

Chart of tool holders for various forms of high speed steel cutters, including outside turning and threading…

Setting US standard or sharp V-threaded tool at right angles with work.

Setting Standard

Setting US standard or sharp V-threaded tool at right angles with work.

Chart of 30 forged planer tools. High speed or carbon steel. Six types of tool holders for various forms of high speed steel cutters.

Planer Tools

Chart of 30 forged planer tools. High speed or carbon steel. Six types of tool holders for various forms…

A mechanical drawing board.

Drawing Board

A mechanical drawing board.

A hand holds and employs a drafting compass, a device used to create precise arcs and circles in mechanical drawing.

Hand Holding a Drafting Compass

A hand holds and employs a drafting compass, a device used to create precise arcs and circles in mechanical…

A compass used to draw precise circles and arcs in mechanical drawing.

Drafting Compass

A compass used to draw precise circles and arcs in mechanical drawing.

Sharpened drawing pencil for mechanical drawings.

Drawing Pencil

Sharpened drawing pencil for mechanical drawings.

Side view of a hand drawing on a mechanical drawing board.

Hand Drawing

Side view of a hand drawing on a mechanical drawing board.

Men and women reap the grain from a field in the 14th century. Two women are bent over using sickles to cut the grain. One man stands behind them, gathering the reaped grain. He has a sickle tucked in his belt. A second man oversees the scene with his hands on his hips. A bundle of grain sits in the background. The original image is pictured in an old psalter.

Reaping Grain the 14th Century

Men and women reap the grain from a field in the 14th century. Two women are bent over using sickles…

A saw-set is an "instrument used to wrest or turn the teeth of saws alternately to the right left so that they may make a kerf somewhat wider than the thickness of the blade. Also called saw-wrest. b. anvil used for setting saws in saw-factories, the setting being performed by blows of the peculiarly shaped hammer; a. Every second tooth is set in one direction, and, the saw-blade being turned over, the intervening teeth are set in the reverse direction; c and d are notched levers by which in ordinary setting the alternate teeth are set in opposite directions." —Whitney, 1889

Collection of Saw-Sets

A saw-set is an "instrument used to wrest or turn the teeth of saws alternately to the right left so…

"An apparatus drawn by oxen or horses, and used for scraping the earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, canals, etc. and generally for raising and removing loosened soil, etc. In use the scraper is held with the handles slightly elevated till it scoops up its charge of earth, which is held by the sides and back." —Whitney, 1889

Scraper, Meant to be Drawn by Oxen or Horses

"An apparatus drawn by oxen or horses, and used for scraping the earth in making or repairing roads,…

"An instrument having two or three sides or edges for cleaning the decks, masts, or planking of ships, etc." —Whitney, 1889
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Ship Scraper

"An instrument having two or three sides or edges for cleaning the decks, masts, or planking of ships,…

"A draftsman's instrument for ruling parallel lines. It consists of a triangle so attached to a straight-edge that it can be moved back and forth on it a distance predetermined by the adjustment of a set-screw. a, a straight-edge; b, triangle moving on <i>a</i> for a distance determined by the set of the micrometer scale <i>c</i>; d, spring for releasing triangle and keeping it in the end of its slot." -Whitney, 1889

Section Liner, A Draftsman's Tool

"A draftsman's instrument for ruling parallel lines. It consists of a triangle so attached to a straight-edge…